Jack Abraham
17 statements across 2 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 17, 2021 by Shaan Puri · said 6 times in 3 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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Sep 17, 2021 bullish
Oct 8, 2021 neutral
Jack Abraham: Atomic invests in 3 stages from $250K up to $8M
“The first check that we'll write to kind of get something going and do some initial research and homework is around a quarter million dollars, but it could range from a 100,000 to 400,000. And then if that goes well, we can write a check that's usually two mil…”
Oct 8, 2021 positive
Abraham: Democratizing exclusive access for the wealthy is a winning startup formula
“One pattern is if you take things that rich people have access to, or rich companies have access to, and you figure out how to democratize them, so you make them more accessible, distributable, cheaper, and accessible to everyone, that is a winning formula for…”
Oct 8, 2021 positive
Jack Abraham: Atomic paced studio launches before scaling to 10-12 startups annually
“And the thing that we did at Atomic is we only did one the first year, two the second, three the third, four the fourth. We really paced ourselves. And I think, you know, now we're at the point where we can do 10 or 12 a year.”
Oct 8, 2021
Abraham: Dramatically simplifying multi-step, necessary tasks produces great startup ideas
“If you take something that people consistently do, and they have to do, and they feel like they have to do it, but it takes a lot of steps and or time, and you dramatically simplify it, and you make it a lot faster to accomplish the same thing that they feel l…”
Oct 8, 2021 bullish
Oct 8, 2021
Oct 8, 2021 neutral
Abraham: Founders financially outperform by focusing on a single moonshot startup
“I do think probably you can do better by just focusing on one, like if you had one thing that was gonna go to the moon that you can probably do financially better, just going all in on that thing, at least in the short term. I don't know in the long term, beca…”
Oct 8, 2021
Abraham joined Comscore as a software engineer at age 12 or 13
“And then when I was 12 or 13, he said, Jack, I'm going to start a company that's going to measure everything everyone does on the internet and make sense of it. Do you want to join it? And I joined it as the third person, as a software engineer, and I learned …”
Oct 8, 2021 positive
Abraham: Audit your calendar and cut meetings where absence changes nothing
“You ask the question, for all of these things that I did last week, what are the things where if I hadn't done this thing, nothing would have changed? And you cross it off the list. And if things keep getting crossed off that list, you probably shouldn't be do…”
Oct 8, 2021 neutral
Abraham: Atomic explored creating autonomous 24/7 commercial fishing vessels
“A crazy idea that I had that I had us look into was what if you created autonomous fishing vessels that went out into the ocean and just fished 2407, even through inclement weather. And they have like crazy sonar and like computer vision underwater and they co…”
Oct 8, 2021
Abraham: Time operates on a power law where one hour trumps years
“Time exists on this massive power law basis... There could be an hour that comes in your life that is worth more than the cumulative sum of everything else you've spent all of the time, all of the effort, all of the energy that you've spent doing everything el…”
Oct 8, 2021 neutral
Abraham: Smartest people either focus singularly or thrive across multiple projects
“I have noticed a pattern, which is that the smartest people I've met in the world fall into one of those two camps. They either want to be like singularly focused on one thing, almost to a fault, where they are so focused on it, and they just absolutely have t…”
Oct 8, 2021 neutral
Jack Abraham: Trust B2B customer feedback, but only trust consumer actions
“The great thing about doing B to B is you can talk to the customer and you can trust what they say. Right. And that is not necessarily true for consumer consumers. You can talk to them and you almost have to read between the lines with what they say. You can't…”
Oct 8, 2021
Oct 8, 2021 bullish
Oct 8, 2021 positive
Abraham: Team built eBay homepage redesign during two-week Australia sprint
“The biggest thing I did, I convinced the CEO to do on a Friday that night, I convinced six people to cancel their next two weeks, fly with me to Sydney, Australia, rent an Airbnb, turn it into a hacker house. And we built the entire thing in two weeks. There's…”